Kidderminster Harriers 0-1 AFC Wimbledon

The Dons stormed back into the play-off picture as they convincingly saw off the side that started their woeful recent run.

Kiddy’s 1-0 victory at Kingsmeadow in early October begun a rut that Wimbledon only recovered from last Tuesday against hapless Ebbsfleet.

But with a player such as Danny Kedwell in their ranks an attempt for the Blue Square Premier’s top five cannot be written off.

The striker pounced after 20 minutes, following impressive Ricky Wellard’s cute pass, to secure back-to-back wins.

He rounded Dean Coleman after out-pacing Gav Caines and there were other chances to kill the game off.

But Kedwell’s 14th of the campaign was all that was required ahead of Tuesday’s trip to Salisbury City.

Also pleasing manager Terry Brown was the club’s second consecutive clean sheet.

No doubt helped by the departure of Harriers’ talented Matthew Barnes-Homer, the striker that got the only goal in south-west London last month, it was a convincing performance.

Brown knew the size of the win – a result that takes Wimbledon up to ninth, only four points shy of fifth place Mansfield Town.

The boss said: “This is such a difficult place to come to and win at.

“Kidderminster have beaten the leaders Oxford here a few weeks ago. And last week they turned over Kettering Town away – not many sides will manage to do both of those in one season.

“I actually felt that we should have finished them off. We hit them on the break a couple of times but we weren’t quite clinical enough.

“But at the other end we were not let down. Defensively against their two big boys were did fantastically well. Seb (Brown) didn’t have an awful lot to do and you can’t fail to be pleased by that at a place like Aggborough.

“It’s a result that gets us looking up after a few weeks ago concerned by what was over our shoulder.”

Kiddy boss Mark Yates was full of praise for the Dons after this, their sixth away victory of the season so far.

“We were below par but they stopped us playing – we didn’t have the answer to the questions they asked.

“Wimbledon were far better than we were. We didn’t have enough players taking responsibility and everyone feels very disappointed.”